Attributed to Giuseppe Arcimboldo · c.1566
The Librarian (attributed to Arcimboldo)
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A bust assembled from books: an open volume for a cap, a book spine for the nose, a tuft of ribbon for the beard, bound folios for the chest, set against a dark curtain. Skokloster Castle, Sweden.
Up to 16 × 22.2 in · portrait
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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Materials & quality
›Canvas & inks
Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.
›Floater frame
Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.
›Posters
Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.
›Faithful to the source
Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.
The story of The Librarian (attributed to Arcimboldo)
The Librarian is in the collection of Skokloster Castle in Sweden and is thought to be a portrait of Wolfgang Lazius, a humanist and historian who served the Holy Roman Emperors. Skokloster dates it to 1562, though it is more often dated to about 1566. It was brought to Sweden after the looting of Prague Castle in 1648. A scientific study published in 2011 concluded that it is a later copy of an original by Arcimboldo whose whereabouts are unknown.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Giuseppe Arcimboldo, also spelled Arcimboldi, was an Italian Mannerist painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish and books.
All Attributed to Giuseppe Arcimboldo prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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